Makes you wonder why grocery stores don’t already offer this? Many of them already have gas stations and a store app and massive parking lots. Seems like it would be an easy way to get additional revenue while providing a service people would use at a location they’re going to be at anyway.
There’s a local grocery store on Martha’s Vineyard in MA that has covered a large part of their parking lot with solar panels and has a handful of EV chargers in the shaded parking spaces. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
I went somewhere that had a setup like that, shaded parking with solar panels ontop, and they had level 2 EV chargers, but they weren’t under the canopy, they were in the full sun :(
As long as they don’t charge idle fees right away… these things can charge so fast you would have to leave mid shopping. When we stop on road trips it’s usually just enough time to get out, stretch, take a piss, eat some fast food and go.
Unless you’re shopping for 2+ hours idk if most people will need to worry about idle fees on level 2 chargers
They’re installing fast chargers, not level 2
Walmart plans to build a proper charging network, own and operate chargers, and offer access through its own Walmart app.
Tom Moloughney visited one of the first sites in McKinney, Texas, where Walmart deployed 400-kW Alpitronic HYC400 chargers. According to the video, the other charger supplier will be ABB.
Nice! Fuck Walmart still, though.
A Walmart charging network sounds great for road tripping. You can stop in, grab some snacks and go to the bathroom, and sometimes there are restaurants inside or in the parking lot.
It’s still, and always will be, fuck Walmart. I wish more truck stops and travel centers would ramp up with EV chargers.
You’re right. Getting more chargers however we can is the important part.
That’s where the cybertruckers shop at yuck!
I wish there were a scathing pejorative that rhymed with “cybertruckers.”
I hope there’s a pet store near the walmart so I can look at kittens and fish while my car charges slower than it would at home.
You have 400 kW charging at home?!
Even if they’re throttled for the cooling system you usually get 37 kW which is more than an 80 amp home charger puts out (19.2 kW).
